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Author Senici, Emanuele, author.

Title Music in the present tense : Rossini's Italian operas in their time / Emanuele Senici.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
©2019

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML410 .R737 S46 M8 2019    Available  
Description xii, 358 pages : music ; 24 cm.
Series Opera lab : explorations in history, technology, and performance
Opera lab.
Summary "In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici's new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer's works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini's dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini's Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the present tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality"--Dust jacket flap.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-344) and index.
Note Introduction -- Part I. Imitation ; Repetition ; Borrowing ; Style ; Genre ; Dramaturgy ; Noise -- Part II. Modernity ; Theatricality ; Repertory ; "Di tanti palpiti" ; Memory ; Pleasure ; Movement ; Belief --Epilogue.
Subject Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Operas.
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868 -- Appreciation.
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.
Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.
Opera.
Italy.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Operas (Rossini, Gioacchino)
Art appreciation.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Other Form: ebook version : 9780226663685
ISBN 9780226663548 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022666354X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226663685 (e-book)